About the School: The New and Enhanced Version

I thought Mount Holyoke was the most magical place on Earth where unicorns ate rainbows and butterflies were besties with purple squirrels. That was before I got there. Soon after my arrival, the school's enchantment wore off after a couple weeks and I started wondering what college life would be like at other schools. There I was, three weeks into the semester silently wishing that I could change schools or hoping that someday Mount Holyoke would prove that it was a good fit for me. One and a third semesters and a handful of decisions and occurrences later, I found myself at home in New York and in bed much too often.

That previous January, I applied to City College's Spitzer School of Architecture right here at home. Five months later, I was accepted and five months of hair-pulling over my uncertain future had come to an end.

I chose this school because 1, it's cheap. While at Mount Holyoke, I met a guy who attended UMass Amherst and when asked why he picked UMass, he said "because it's cheap" and that line firmly planted itself in my head. 2, it's in NYC AKA the greatest place on the world AKA home. I intend to commute the hour and a half to school for the next four (or five) years while silently wishing for a private bus service to take me to school everyday. Regardless: Oh boy, METROCARD fare... (sigh). Number 3: I had taken a summer architecture class there and it basically molded the way that I envision architecture school. Whatever they say, goes.

In the end, I'm just a normal kid in kollege.